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The New Knighthood: A History of the Order of the Temple » (Reprint)

Authors: Malcolm C. Barber
ISBN-13: 9780521558723, ISBN-10: 0521558727
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: September 1995
Edition: Reprint

Details the rise and fall of the medieval Order of the Temple, and its afterlife in myth and history.

	List of plates
	List of figures
	Preface
	Acknowledgements
	List of abbreviations
	Chronology
	List of Grand Masters of the Temple
1	Origins	1
2	The concept	38
3	The rise of the Templars in the east in the twelfth century	64
4	Hattin to La Forbie	115
5	The last years of the Templars in Palestine and Syria	148
6	Templar life	179
7	The Templar network	229
8	The end of the Order	280
9	From Molay's curse to Foucault's Pendulum	314
	Notes	335
	Bibliographical orientation	394
	List of references	399
	Index	420